"Dirty Harry" has to be taken in the context of the time it was released. Recent High Court decisions hampered the authority of the constabulary. There was civil unrest and there was a feeling among some of the populace that the criminal element of society was being coddled by the courts. All you have to do is look at my own hometown, Philadephia, where a cop, Frank Rizzo, was elected mayor and went by the monicker "Billy the Kid". This film serves to vent the frustrations of the law abiding who feel they are at the mercy of the hoodlums. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) isn't so much a vigilante but a cop, disgruntled with the system, who when occasion calls bends the rules to restore law and order. His adversary here is an amoral serial killer, Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), who cleverly plays the system to walk away from his heinous crimes. It's of little irony that Scorpio sports a belt buckle with a distorted peace sign. Director Don Siegel films the action in a gritty style and the story is a non-stop adrenaline rush. I first saw "Dirty Harry" about 25 years ago and it left more of an impression then. This is not to say the film is dated but I think it's that our men in blue have been restored to hero status and that we now have a more common sense approach to prosecuting the criminal element.
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- In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputatio n handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop hi
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